Point of View

The novel is told from the first-person-present point of view of Anna. No other characters are allowed a perspective, though there are several emails presented to the reader from St. Clair, Anna’s father, and Bridge. In these emails, the reader is able to see the world from a different perspective, and this is essential in balancing the vantage point, which is skewed heavily in Anna’s favor.

Because Anna is the narrator and the main character, everything that happens in the story resolves around her, and the narrator is constantly bombarded by her thoughts and opinions about everything around her. Anna reports that her father is a cruel and selfish jerk, but when the reader sees his email it becomes clear that he wants his daughter to have a magical experience in Paris rather than to torture her with boarding school. Anna tells the...